Routine Referrals. Mental health assessments shall be provided by a qualified mental health professional within 5 business days for each inmate whose mental health/suicide screening triggers the following assessment factors:
Routine Referrals. 1 .1 In normal working hours by the competent authority / specified user of ESIC/ESIS Hospitals/ Institutions will initiate referral by generating P1 referral letter online through ‘’Xxxxxxxxxxx’’ Module or otherwise (as specified by ESIC from time to time). The P1 printout, signed by the referring authority and other formalities completed shall be scanned and uploaded in UTI module and hard copy of referral letter should be handover to patient. In the event where the respective ESIC/ESIS Hospitals/Institution are unable to generate online referral on account of Server/Application issued, BPA shall record the time & duration of the problem and facilitate the entry of such referrals on the system at a later stage and maintain an audit trail for the same. Tie up hospital should ensure that the referral letter is properly and completely filled including date, referral number, and attestation of photo, signature of patient/attendant, stamp and signature of competent authority. In the event of Tie-up hospital receiving improper letter, while continuing the treatment to patient, they should get them corrected/rectified from the Referring Hospital. The validity of referral in normal circumstances shall be for 7 days only from the date of referral (excluding the date of referral). Duration of admission should be mentioned on the r eferral for cases not covered under CGHS package. If not specified, the admission shall be valid for Three days (03) only, pursuant to which the tie up hospital (the empanelled h ospital) shall seek further permission for extension of stay. There will be no scope of revalidation of old referrals and in all such cases where the validity has elapsed; a new referral will have to be generated in the system. In special circumstances for e.g Chemotherapy, Dialysis etc, the validity shall prevail as per instructions of ESIC, as intimated from time to time. Chemotherapy – Cycle wise referrals with due mention of days e.g Cycle 1- day 1,3 or 5 or as the case may be. The number of days as specified by referring ESIC/ESIS Hospital needs to be mandatorily captured in the module. Radiotherapy – Total sittings and total dose e.g 25 Gy in 5 sessions. The number of sessions as specified by referring ESIC/ESIS Hospital needs to be mandatorily captured in the module. Dialysis – Referral for 30 days with due mention of the frequency/session of dialysis. Number of days as specified by referring ESIC to be specified e.g one session per week for a mount...
